Explores domestic life & material culture in America by detailing the products sold in the domestic sphere between the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. (Coverage: 1850 -1950)
Early work printed in the British Isles & North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere. (Coverage: 1470-1700) For the later period, see Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
This collection can also be searched on Gale Primary Sources, an integrated platform that combines Gales digital archives into a single cross-searchable interface.
Digital images of thousands of books, pamphlets & broadsides published during the 18th c. (Coverage: 1701-1800) For the earlier period, see Early English Books Online.
This collection can also be searched on Gale Primary Sources, an integrated platform that combines Gales digital archives into a single cross-searchable interface.
The acquisition of this database was made possible through the support of the Unidel Foundation.
Partial Open Access. Partnering with academic & research institutions, HathiTrust (pronounced hah tee) provides access to millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Typically, books in the public domain (no longer under copyright) can be viewed in full by all users.
Comprehensive bibliography of publications about Delaware.
Includes the entries from 2 previously published bibliographies (Bibliography of Delaware through 1960 & Bibliography of Delaware, 1960-1974), the annual bibliographies created & published by the Delaware Historical Society, & additional entries created by Robert Fleck, former proprietor of Oak Knoll Books.
Detailed historical maps of Delaware cities & towns. 140 maps sets are available for the state of Delaware. (Coverage: 1884-1958)
Sanborn maps, produced by the Sanborn Map Company, the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years, are valuable to anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, & development of American cities, towns, & neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing information that was used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. Information includes the outline of each building, the size, shape, & construction materials, heights, & function of structures, location of windows & doors. The maps also give street names, street & sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, & house & block numbers.
Textual information on construction details (for example, steel beams or reinforced walls) is often given on the plans, while shading indicates different building materials. Extensive information on building use is given, ranging from symbols for generic terms such as stable, garage, & warehouse to names of owners of factories & details on what was manufactured in them. In the case of large factories or commercial buildings, individual rooms & the uses to which they were put are recorded on the maps. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, & heavy machinery.
140 map sets are available for Delaware, ranging in date from 1884 to 1958. A key provided by the Sanborn Map Company provides information on the notation of map features.
The Library of Congress has made thousands of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps available online for many buildings in U.S. cities & towns. These maps are in color.
Sanborn maps for Delaware are also available on microfilm (Microfilm no. 3333, 3 reels). Later coverage for some Delaware cities is available on an an additional reel (Microfilm no. 5690).
Sanborn maps for several nearby states are also available on microfilm: District of Columbia (Microfilm no. 3338 and no. 4614), Maryland (Microfilm no. 3368 and no. 4741), New Jersey (Microfilm no. 3519 and no. 4612), & Pennsylvania (Microfilm no. 3332 and no. 4613).
NOTE: The original maps are color coded. The maps in this database & on microfilm are black & white.
Histories of cities & counties of the original thirteen states (with the exception of Virginia), plus Vermont & Maine. The collection includes more than 2,700 large volumes that have been manually rekeyed. It provides vivid portraits of people, places, & events—not just national figures, but local figures, demographics, social, economic, & cultural transformations.
Provides local & regional perspectives on many of the topics & issues of the day:
Open Access. The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) program at the Library of Congress is a free of charge cooperative cataloging program, partnered by the Library & eligible repositories located throughout the U.S. & its territories. It provides & promotes bibliographic access to the nation's documentary heritage.
Open Access. Helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums & historical societies. Millions of archival descriptions & finding aids from over 1,400 different institutions are represented.
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